We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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